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LEADING SEMI-WEEKLY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA VOLUME 53. EXPRESS RATE CUT FOR SOUTH BY FEDI BOARD Washington, D. C.—Express rates throughout the country were ordered readjusted Monday by the interstate commerce commission, which au thorized general increases in the eastern Jtwne, approximating eight per cent and slight reductions in the west and the south. The decision will be effective Jan uary 1, 1925. The decision was the result of a general investigation by the com mission in which representatives of state . railroad (commissions partici pated, Wide differences in rates be tween the southern, middle western, •R'ocky mountain and Pacific coast -zones were ordered brought more nearly to a common level. Fixing the basic rate in 1912, the -commission proceeded on the theory that the cost of transporting ex press in western and southern terri tory was more expensive than in the east. The investigation resulted in a change in that theory, it having been shown that the -cost in the east' is higher than in the west because of eXdWfiEistw# free deliverey systems and extra terminal service at eastern poinfs which is not given so gener ally ip the west. The present rates tihve the 1912 rates as their basis and include sev eral horizontal increases which have been granted since 1918. The basic rate for the first fifty miles haulage in eastern trunk line territory is now approximately 15 cents. Under the -readjustment the rate would be approximately 26 cents. The southern basic rate of 20 cents, which was horizontally in creased to 30 cents, would be de creased to approximately 28 1-2 cents. In the Prairie states the basic rate Of ,24 cents, which was hoizontally increased to 35 cents, would be re adjusted to about 31 cents. The mountain territory basic rate of 28 cents, increased to 38 cents since 1918, would be brought down to ap proximately 31 cents. The west coast rate of 24 cent*, horizontally increased since 1918 to 36 cents, would be reduced to about MISS NANCY BAGGETT. Nancy Baggett, aged 96, died at the home at Auburn Satur day, June 14th. Rev. Thomas had charge of the funeral and interment was held near Auburn on Sunday. Miss Baggett was an aunt of Mr. J. J. Baggett, of Lawrenceville. MR. HARRISON BERRYMAN. SJ .* Harrison Eerryman, well .-known ir. Gwinnett county, died Tjcsday night at the home of his son, T. Bo’ijman, of Braselton. Funeral and interment took place Thursday after noon from Walnut church in Jackson county. , lie deceased was seventy-seven years old and was a native of 1 icksor, co:;;.tj. He was the father of Mrs C. I* Cnkes, deceased, and frequer :!y visaed La-wrenceville. is survived by his wife and the folloving children: Mrs. H. B. Wes ley, Mrs. A. L. Wood and Mrs. iia.\c i>nre, all of Atlanta; D. S. uni i\ Berryman, Jackson county, L. J. Berryman, Pucketts district; Frank and Tal Berryman, who are vnk'ng their homes in the west. MRS. SARAH E. FREEMAN. Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Freeman, the twenty-four year old wife of Mr. R. C. Freeman, died at their home near Loganville iin Walton county Thurs day, and her remains were interred at Haynes Creek church Friday after noon. She was Miss Sarah E. Hudson be fore she married Mr. Freeman, being the daughter of Mr. H. .L. Hudson. She had no children. SUMMER SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS AT Fifth A. & M. School Begins July Ist, and ends with State Examination August Ist, 1924. This school is for teachers desiring to secure or renew Elementary Li censes. The State Examination, to be held here the last day of the session, will be based on ground covered in this Summer School. The School » under the general aupervision of Superintendent N. H. Ballard, who has selected a corps of ■ expert teachers. total expense is fCO.OO lot the five weeks. Application should be sent ht Snce to: Principal J. Henry Walker, Mnnrae, Georgia, The News-Herald HRS. MACKIN DIES AT HOME Mrs. Caroline Mackin died at her home in Lawrenceville Sunday night, June 15th, about 10 o’clock. She had been ill for some months and criti cally ill for the past few days. Mrs. Mackin, who had resided here for many years, was 81 years of age and the widow of Hiram Mackin. The following children sur vive her: Mrs. Banna Mackin, of Li thonia, and Mr. S. Mackin and Miss es Letha, Agnes and Roda Mackin,. of Lawrenceville. She was a member of the Metho dist church. Funeral services will be held this (Monday) afternoon at 5 o’clock with interment in Lawrenceville cemetery. JUNE MASONIC ANNIVERARIES Washington, D. C., June 12.—The month of June holds many anniver saries of peculiar significance. Ma sons hav<e had a' Conspicuous part in world events for over two centuries and it is the custom of Masonic lodges and organizations to memorial ize the men who have been leaders in the struggle for liberty and progress. Masonry is preeminently a patriotic fraternity and takes advantage of historic anniversaries to inculcate American principles. Linking modern times with the rev olutionary days, June 7, 1775, has a deep Masonic interest in that on this day Braddock set out for Fort Du quesne. On his staff was a young of ficer, then in his teens, who was de stined to write his name among the greatest, George Washington. Twenty-one years later, June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, a Mason, offered in the American congress a resolution declaring that the colonies should be free and independent. On June 15, 1776, Washington ac cepted command of the American army and began that series of pnjli tary campagne that Frederick the Great declared demonstrated that Washington was a strategist of the first rank. The battle of Banker HiTT Was fought on June 17, 1775. Although this battle was a defeat for the Amer ican forces it served to arouse the colonies and therefore cost the Brit ish dearly. General Joseph Warren who lost his life in this skirmish was formerly grand master of Masons of Masachu setts. Fifty years later Marquis de Lafayette, another famous Mason, laid the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill monument. The battle of Waterloo occurred on June 18, 1815, on which occasion the allied armies under the generalship of the Duke of Wellington smashed the armies of Napoleon and brought the dreams of the emperor to a disastrous end. The duke of Wellington was a leader in English Masonry and was a member of lodge No. 494 on the Irish roll, held at Trim, in the county of iWeath. Pioneer days will be remembered on June 24th because on that date in the year 1607, the holy sacrament was first administered at Jamestown. Among the Englishmen who laid the foundation of that early comrmron wealth were many Masons. Masonry’s consistent battle for the Tights of the people will be empha sized on June 22. Giuseppe Mazzini, the great Italian liberator, was born on June 22, 1805. Mazzini was grand master of Masons of Italy. Another Italian patriot whose name is closely linked with the fraternity is Giuseppe Garibaldi, who, with Maz zini, shares the honors of obtaining liberty for Italy. Garibaldi’s death occurred June 2, 1882. He was made a Mason when a young man and was made grand commander of the su preme council, 33 degrees, of Italy in 1863. While in the United States in ,his early manhood he is said to have affiliated with Tompkins lodge No. 471, Stapleton, N. Y. MRS. H. C. SIMPSON. Mrs. H. C. Simpson, who va; Miss Press Brown before her man tape, died at their home in Atlanta <ji April 30th, and' her remains were taken to Sugar Hill church near Bu ford for funeral and interment. The deceased, who was forty-six years of age, was a native of Gwin nett county. She joined the church when quite young, and was married at the age of twenty. Besdes her heart broken husband she leaves nine children, her parents, five sisters and two brothers to mourn her lose. The funeral was conducted by her pastor, Rev. W. T. Chadwick, assist ed by Rev! W. W. Owen, of Buford, also by Rev. Mr. Jacobs and Rev. Mr. Gresham, of Atlanta. USED CARS FOR SALE FOR SALE—Several used FORDS at bargain prices. LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1924. GEORGIA BOYS IN EXPLOSION Atlanta, Ga.—Georgia’s total of killed and injured in the explosion of a gun turret on the U. S. dread naught Mississippi off the California coast Thursday afternoon mounted to four with receipt of news dis patches Friday telling of the death of Farris Hopkins, of Adairsville, and jnjuries to Seaman W. H. Ball, of Monroe, and Seaman Ralph E. Harrison, of Greensboro. Lieutenant Thomas Edward Zellars, a native of Grantville, Ga., and well known in Atlanta, also was killed in the ex plosion. According to word received from Washington by H. M. Hopkins, „fa ther of Faris Hopkins, the body will be brought to Adairsville for inter ment, with arrangements to be an nounced later. ‘ Hopkins, who was 26 years old, was born and reared in Adairsville, living there until he enlistej in the navy during the war. JURORS WHO WILL SERVE INSEPTEMBER Gand Jury for the September Term. O. E. Upshaw, J. R. Gamer, J. S. Padeu, W. T. Chadwick, O. H. Johnson, W. A. Minor, i J. E. Pratt, i ‘ G. L. Brogdon, J. A. Nash, E. A. Pate, £ F. M. Moore, H. G. Robinson, = K. E. Taylor, H. J. Gunter, t W. A. Lee, Sr., L. M. Whitlock, / L. N. Sudderth, T. H. Edwards, W. B. Rutledge, J. N. Puckett, Jr., J. Heard Summeronr, Rbert Burnett, W. F. McMillian, L. C. Mauldin, J. S. Young, j J. D. McDaniel, j- J. EL Hamilton, J. T. Rowe, W. T. Knight, Sr., R. L. Lawson. Traverse Jury for the First Week- W. S. Garner, R. H. Donaldson, O. I. Shipley, J. S. Hinton, M. H. Mason, J. L. Broadwell, J. T. Carroll, A. M. Wilson, J. N. McClure, E. M. Stonecyphe L. P. Pattillo, J. W. Guthrie, E. S. Ethridge, W. T. Arnold, W. S. Burell, J. P. Hadaway, S. L. Smith, I. B. Whitworth, P. M. Christian, J. F. Gilstrap, W. S. Drummonds W. A. Reese, A. C. Whiting, J. C. Oakes, John Hamilton, W. T. Tanner, P. S. Barrett, C. N. Britt, L. C. Moore, W. H. Scott, A. H. Leitch, W. N. Pool, J. E. Davis, C. W. Hmton, T. L. Roberts, Grady Cheek, F. O. P>ady, * J. W Greeson, W. P. Stephens, O. 0! Lankford. Traverse -ary for the Second Week. Ca’l Gi.n-.er, W. C. »len, J. W. Thompson, L. D Msnn, C. H. Cunningham J. I. McDaniel, P. J. Brown, R. F. Pickens, W. H. Rowe, T. W. Drncan, J. A. DeShong, G. W. Masters, Loy Wages, 1j S. F. Dowis, W. L. Gofer, C. M. Moon, J E. Graves, c A. H. Braziei, J. C. Barker, L. W. Jones, W. 8.. Whitworth, J. M. Fountain, F. Y. Williams, P, L. Huff, Lester Brogdon, S A. Dodd, H. M. Johnson, T. E. Summerour, THREE STILLS ARE Cllt DOWN IN HARBINS Receiving a tip that one still in Hatbins district was turning out 200 gallons of whisky every twenty-four hours, Sheriff Gainer and Deputies Howard Garner, tiugh Garner and Lum Brown went down and found three stills within a space of one hundred feet. The sheriff says it was an elab orate outfit, on* Still being of one hundred gallons Capacity and the otWet two capgbl* of running fifty gallons each. Th*y were located on Alcova riv et, just back of a negro church, and thl» furnace WAS ktill hot when the officers arrived. 3,000 gallons, of bfe*r #as HkeWiS* destroyed. No person wds ground at the time of th* capture itiid it is said they were Earned bjf lignals of guns of the approach of Officers. Though the Sheriff and his depu ties have destroyld many stills, this is one of the largest outfits ever found in Gwinnett county. IRENE AND OlfflE STAGE A FIGHT | I 1 Irene Dunhatfe, dark colored, daughter of Bob Dunham, and Omie Harris, also colored, pulled a fight with no charge for admission near the bfcck door of the Hotel Ewing Monday morning* starting at 10:30. Omie is badly tut and Irene is in Gwinnett county jail. It seems that the colored women met on the street and after some words, English ahd duss, were pass ed, the fight started, though we did not learn just who they were scrap ping about. Omie only had her fists, while Irene is Baid to have, pulled a razor, and Omie is cut on the right shoul der and chest. Medical attention was given and she was removed to her home. Irene started home but was de tained by Sheriff Gamer. B*v. pick Samrcon, of Las Vegas, m* Mftsriee, I— Tkaaa day to spend the summer wish his mother, Mrs. Alice Sammon. Dick has been attending Montezuma Col lege in the far west taking a theo logical course. LACE BRASWELL. Mr. Lace Braswell, forty-five years old, died at the home of his father, Mr. Tom Braswell, in Harbins district Thursday, and his body was laid to rest at Shiloh Friday. He had been sick about a year and his wife was Miss Maggie Robinson; MRS. JANE GOWER. , - Mrs. Jane Gower, the wife of Mr. Machlin Gower, died at their homo in Pucketts district Sunday, and her re mains were laid to rest at Zion’s Hill church Monday, the funeral being con ducted by Rev. James T. Jones. The deceased was Miss Jane Bowen before marriage and was sixty-nine years of age. Besides her husbanl she is survived by four or five sons and two daughters. Call on us for Potato Slips; we will have them. Jl9c C. R. Ware and C. U. Horn. » " Every great and commanding novement in the annals of th world s the triumph of enthusiasm. A. S. Ethridge, J. A. Jordan, H. P. Wynn, E. S. Hogan, L. O. Garner, O. R. Juhan, G. C. Reid, J. R. Mitchell, W. H. Freeman, W. B. Rutledge, R. G. Vance, H. J. Jordan, C. C. Duncan, W. B. Mitchell, J. N. Williams, R. L. Kennerly, A. L. Mahaffey, D. M. Glower, T. W. Brooks, T. R. Gunter, Roland Williams, W. O. Davis, Wm. Wilson, W. M. Whaley, C. J. Bolton, W. N, Nunn, A. G. Cheek, fi. K. Bowman, J. Frank Green, At a regular meeting of Mount " J. A. Dodd, E. L. Gresham, A. R. Danforth. June Jurihs Called Beck. The juries drawn for the first and second weeks of June will serve at the special term to be held on the i third and fourth weeks of August. MISTRIAL IN THE MDOWELL CASE Decatur. Ga.—The trial of Frank McDowell, charged with the murder 'of his mother at their home in St. Petersburg, Fla., on February i9th, which was called in the court house at Clearwater, Fla., Monday result ed in a mistrial. j It was stated that the jury stood i!0 for acquittal on the ground of insanity and two for the death pen alty. McDowell will be put on trial the econd time next Tuesday, it is re ported. McDowell Ws put on trial at .Clearwater, Fla., where he has been. I confined in jail since the killing of his father and mother at their home in St. Petersburg, Fla., on the night of February 19th. The trial is said to have attracted large crowds of people and the news papers gave elaborate reports and pictures of it. Frank Ik reported to have confess ed that he told his mother soon after I jthe Decatur fire that he was the .cause of it and that she told him ||what to tell Fire Master Sharp when he came to Decatur to make an in vestigation. The plea of insanity was' entered hy his lawyers and McDowell was j not allowed to make a statement to fie court. This he was very anxious o do and he resented the action of is lawyers in not allowing him to talk. Two specialists testified that Frank was insane and that he prob ably did not know right from wrong. His uncle, G. B. McDowell, also tes tified that he regarded Frank as in sane. COL. COOLIDGE AND DAWES GAP. TICKET Cleveland, June 12.—Coolidge and Dawes is the republican ticket for 1924. President Coolidge’* nomination was accomplUhed with only a ripple of dis sent from Wisconsin and North Da kota, but th® nomination of his run- Ndsffwak Mmi oaly after the eonvan t’on had one® chosen Frank O. Low den, of Illinois, and been forced by his declination to choose another—Char les G. Dawes, the “hell and Maria general.” After a short race with Herbert Hoover, who came into the balloting after the declination of Lowden, Dawes gailoped off with the nomina tion. Motions to make it unanimous and by acclamation were disturbed only by the dissents from Wisconsin and North Dakota. Leaders in Tiff. In a brief and fight in which William M. Butler, 'President Coolidge’s campajgn manager, had said to Senator Reed, of Pennsylvania, “it must be Hoover,” and Senator Reed had replied “it can’t be done, it must be Dawes,” the Dawes support ers, after the declination of former Governor Lowden, of Illinois, mar shalled their forces and put the gen eral across for the nomination. Earlier in the day Mr. Butler’s forces had passed the word that the administration men desired the nomi nation of Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, and in the voting which followed the supporters of Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, ran away with the nomination for their man, only to have him de cline it. The nomination of Dawes came as the climax to one of the most spec tacular scenes in republican party history, in which the convention once having nominated a candidate was obliged to undo its work and find an other. Never before had a convention got into such a snarl. After the Coolidge leaders were all set for the nomination of Theodore Burton, congressman and former sen ator from Ohio, the Lowden delegates took the bit in their teeth and. in one of the most spectacular proceedings ever witnessed in a national conven tion ran away with the nomination for Lowden despite all efforts, includ ing his own, to stop them. Came Like'Avalanche. Party managers under the new re gime, waiting calmly on the platform 'or the votes to turn to Burton, as they expected, saw the Lowden strength suddenly leap up and grow and carry the convention off its feet. Like a snowball rolling down hill the Lowden'tnovement began to double itself every time it turned over and before any human being could stop it, delegations were changing their vote,* and billing votes for Lowden at the chair in jjuch an avalanche that the clerks and convention officials lost all track of the count. Then Senator Willis, of Ohio, moved to make it unanimous and tha delega tion from Wisconsin cast the only dissenting vote. MOBILIZE AND FIGHT_TO WIN The following is clipped from a circular published by the citizens of Mitchell county in the Pelham Jour nal: Let us acknowledge our debt to the farmer in an earnest, brotherly spirit. When the farm wagor stops rolling, every car in Mitchell county, from the Packard to the Ford, will have to be dragged under the shed. Your business future, and your hopes and aims are vitally affected by what the farmer does during the next few weeks. He will say whether or not you shall have a new car. His prosperity will pay off your mort gage, and may be necessary to even keep your children in school. His losses will be an injury to every man, woman and child who reads these lines. Don’t discount the gravity of the situation that confronts you today. The cotton is up and chopped out and looking good. If it is poisoned and the squares picked and burned for three weeks the boll weevil will be whipped. If it is neglected, thous ands of bales will be lost. In the past many of us have stood by, and watched the farmer fight what we considered his battles. To day the situation is changed. His fight is the fight of each of us. His welfare*is the welfare of each of us, and we recognize it. Mitchell county has done nooly in liversification. Two thousand acres are in tobacco. We have a hundred dairies, with thousands of acres sown to permanent pastures. Truck is -planted on hundreds of farms, and we are shipping it in carload lots. We have live stock unnumbered and a carload of chickens is shipped out every two weeks. But—Cotton is still the BIG MON EY, and the weevil is'here. Whether or not a crop wilT be made will be settled in the hekt few weeks. And" the decision will' toe final. Farriers: &ow is the time to'act. You can poison now with one-fifth of the labor and expense that will be necessary if you put it oif. A day’s fight now will be worth more than a month of fight in July. And let everybody-that is interested in bia own welfare, or the welfare of the county; men, women and child ren, think boll weevil destruction, talk it, and dream it at night. When this county is mobilized for jvar work, it accomplished wonders. Today hte present and future pros perity of each of us is at stake. Let’s don’t “lay down on the the job.” Let’s mobilize and fight. We can win if we fight. HIGHWAY BONDS AND STATE PORT ISSUES Atlanta, Ga., June 12. —With the sizzling summer session of the Geor gia general assembly less than three weeks off, state officials and political prophets are beginning to predict that the legislature this year will face a warm session when the members of the two branches meet to solve the problems confronting them. These predictions are based on the fact that this is a political year when the members of the two houses and the occupants of state offices must stand before the people on their rec ords. It has been the custom of past legislatures to avoid the big issues, upon which the voters are divided, at sessions immediately preceding an ex pression from the people at the ballot box. Big issues always have two sides and separate alignments, and few candidates for office will go out of their way to antagonize anybody. Governor Walker has given no in timation as to the contents of his message, but it is expected that he will follow the lines of previous mes sages in urging tax reform. How ever, few believe that the governor will -make such a vigorous drive for the passage of tax reforms as nt made at the extra session, when he was so anxious for big accomplish ments in order that the gqll for ihe extra session might be justified. Friends of, the governor feel that the call has been justified, oven with out the tax reform Governor Walker was so. insistent upon, as the auditing and revenue departments created by tbe extra session have accomplished splendid results in holding down pub lic expenditures and increasing rev. enues and the cigar and cigarette tax has already brought in more than the extra session cost the taxpayers, it is said. ; Two. Big lfMW*. If tax reform legislation is side tracked at the coming session, the big issues probably will be a highway bond issue and efforts to -have the state get behind a port project at Savannah../ A vigorous.campaign is now being made by Kiwanis clubs in ISSUED EVERY MONDAY and THURSDAY CROP REPORT OF GEORGIA FOR MONTH OF MAY Atlanta, Ga.—lmprovement in the condition of most of Georgia’s gen eral crops during the month of May, and splendid fruit prospects, are in dicated in a report released today by the statistician of the Georgia Cooperative Crop Reporting Service, Details of the report follow: Small Grains Oats and wheat continued to im prove during the past month, al though the conditions and final yield per acre will be considerably below the average. Harvest is un usually late. Spring oats have been coming along nicely, but the yield frcm spring sowings is usually much below that from fall and winter oats, making the yield per acrg for the entire crop very low. Thil' year, over three-fourths of the harvested acreage is of spring Ranting, doe to severe winter killing Of f the fall plantings. The yield' per is 14.8 bushels, with. 18 bushels last year, and only 234J000 acres will be harvested, coypaied with 521,000 acres harves€e<f last year. > « Wheat, with an average yield per acre of 9.5 bushels, compares fa vorably with laSt year. Acreage to be harvested is"much less ‘than half of that harvested last year, due to reduced plantings and whiter kill ing. Fruit Peach prospects are still,good. The condition of 80% of normal, the Same figure reported last month, compared with 70% condition of one? year ago, and the average for the* past ten years of 71%. There have been complaints of hail damage in some sections, but these are Pot gen eral, and the main commercial crop still* promises to, be a record break ing one. Correspondents expect, 78% of a normal apple crop. Prospects are hiUch better than last year and well above the average. . MitttlllKMl Hay crops and pastures have made considerable improvement during, tile • {last month, and the cwrnUriiu.i new closely approximates the average. Early . Irish', potatoes unproved slightly. The crop was very late get ting started' and much of the time t has been too wet. Home gardens have improved remarkably. - * Watermelons and cantaloupes are ’ somewhat bettor than last y aaar, Wat - a little below average. There is some complaint of damage by anthracnose in the cantaloupes section, although it is not thought that this disease will be as serious as it was last year- Present indications are for anoth er good pecan year. The reported condition of 82% of normal is sour what below that of last year, but is. still well above the average, Increase in Use of Fertilizers From 6% to 10% more fertilizer is being used this year than East. About two-thirds of the total amount of fertilizer used is applied to cot ton. - The labor situation has changed very little. Complaint of shortage ire some sections, although not so* gen eral as heretofore. Many report that they are now making their plans so* as not to be dependent upon hired labor. MISS SYLVJA gHELNUTT. Funeral services for Mhw Syfvia Shelnutt, of 27 Sutton street, Atlanta/, who died Wednesday morning at a private sanitarium at the age of twen ty years, were held Thursday morn ing at 10- o’clock at t*i? residence. The remains were taken to Buf/.-d Thursday afternoon for inlerntont. Miss Shelnutt is survived by b* i mother, Mrs. M. A.. She*u;tl; one brother, Walton W. Sheftv.ttt, and four sisters, Mrs. E. J. Cain. Mr*. C. N. Parks and Misses Estelle and Inman Shelnutt. Georgia for a 170,000,000 bond issue sor v good roads, and great progress reported in, persuading the people that the bonds «tn be ..carried along and finally paid off with gasoline tax money u& motor vehicle license fees, without adding one dollar to. the ad valorem taxes. j Savannah, is going after the state port in* a more determined and more effective manner than ever before/ and carrying on an intensive cam paign 6f education. Port boosters fijotn the Chatham, capital plan to t<jur the state immediately before the session opens in an effort to convince legislators and their consttuents that the proposed port project would be a statewide benefit. It is apparent that public sentiment is turning toward a state port, but there will be a battle oil any effort to have the state «F Georgia issue bonds for the project. NUMBER 60.